Methodological innovations in researching socially excluded groups: Young people with autism

Children with Autism Spectrum Condition are a socially excluded group who are hard to reach. When social researchers have access to this group, the decision over which method to employ is an important one.

Methods for understanding public opinion about emerging technologies

Historically, science governance has been a policy domain driven almost entirely by 'elites'. Today, public consultation procedures have become an automatic part of the policy-making process with the aim of bringing members of the general public into closer engagement with the technical, social and ethical issues around new and emerging science and technology.

About NCRM

National Centre for Research Methods (NCRM) is a network of research groups, each conducting research and training in social science research methods. We have a distributed structure, with the coordinating Hub in the University of Southampton and nodes across UK universities.